In his second blog on community treatment orders, Ian Cummins looks at a UK study on user, carer and practitioner perspectives and critiques the policy.
[read the full story...]Multiple perspectives on community treatment orders
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[read the full story...]E-markets and micros: evidence for the future of social care?
Sarah Carr takes an unusual step of appraising a ‘think tank’ research report on e-marketplaces for social care and discusses the work in relation to the broader context of evidence-based policy.
[read the full story...]Trying targets: did Local Area Agreements support social cohesion?
Jenny Fisher asks if the Local Area Agreement policy intervention and associated targets helped with social cohesion and offers useful pointers for further reading on the topic.
[read the full story...]Micro providers at the margins: filling gaps, building bridges
Jo Moriatry considers a literature review on how people who have been marginalised in mainstream services are creating and finding support from micro providers and community organisations.
[read the full story...]How is evidence-based practice understood in social work?
Sarah Carr considers a Swedish study on understandings of evidence-based practice in social work practitioners, managers and policy makers and wonders how the findings could relate to social work in the UK.
[read the full story...]Jobs for the girls? Intergenerational care and gender inequality in Europe
Martin Stevens discusses research on gender inequality and intergenerational patterns of care in Europe and reveals possible potential implications for current social care reform.
[read the full story...]Self-neglect and safeguarding: indicators for good practice
Jill Manthorpe follows up her previous blog on self-neglect and safeguarding by looking at a related paper on good practice indicators from serious case reviews.
[read the full story...]Parents’ experience of transition: support and struggle
Hannah Morgan assesses a study on parents’ experience of support for transition to adulthood for children with Autistic Spectrum Conditions and finds that although they want to support their children, they themselves are not always supported by services.
[read the full story...]Testing a person-centred approach to carer support
Mary Larkin discusses a US study of a person-centred, evidence-based carer support intervention and thinks about implications of the findings for the UK context.
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